This page is meant to work as an ever-growing glossary of terms I have come across and wouldn’t know what they meant. Hopefully this might save someone an extended G**gle search or two some day.
Explanations are mine, even when Wikipedia might offer a more in-depth solution. I simply like to keep it simple. Please feel free to comment any errors that have been made.
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- Desktop environment (DE) [vs. window manager (WM)]: A desktop environment is the graphical interface for an OS and in the case of Linux usually consists of a window manager (WM), a file manager, themes (different visual representations of the same thing) and programs to configure the desktop.
A window manager is part of a DE and is managing the display (i.e. appearance and placement) of windows in the graphical user interface, often including the task bar. Note that some distribution descriptions don’t name a DE but only a WM. That doesn’t mean that the distribution doesn’t have a DE. The combination of WM and the other components simply doesn’t have a unified name, and the WM is the most prominent feature of a DE.
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- Window manager (WM) [vs. desktop environment (DE)]: A desktop environment is the graphical interface for an OS and in the case of Linux usually consists of a window manager (WM), a file manager, themes (different visual representations of the same thing) and programs to configure the desktop.
A window manager is part of a DE and is managing the display (i.e. appearance and placement) of windows in the graphical user interface, often including the task bar. Note that some distribution descriptions don’t name a DE but only a WM. That doesn’t mean that the distribution doesn’t have a DE. The combination of WM and the other components simply doesn’t have a unified name, and the WM is the most prominent feature of a DE.
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